Olivia Plender

British | 1977

Olivia Plender is a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Maureen Paley have featured Olivia Plender's work in the past.Olivia Plender has been featured in articles for Art-agenda, ArtLyst and Frieze Magazine. The most recent article is The 59th October Salon: The ‘Leap’ Edition written for Blok Magazine in February 2023.

Monitor, 2006 - 2007

Vinyl banner with DVD and audio soundtrack

21 minutes 29 seconds

The Masterpiece/Evil Genius - Olivia Plender

The Masterpiece/Evil Genius, 2004

Six screenprinted posters

114 x 83.5 cm

Monitor, 2006

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At Auction

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The Masterpiece Part 4 - A Weekend in The Country

By Olivia Plender

Christie's Online

Current Exhibitions

Primary Forms: III edition

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Warsaw | Poland

Oct 01,2023 - Jun 30,2024

Chronos: health, access and intimacy

Tensta Konsthall

Spanga | Sweden

Mar 14,2024 - Sep 01,2024

Past Exhibitions

Spring Never Comes Again…: Children & Art in the 20th & 21st Centuries

Zachęta National Gallery of Art

Warsaw | Poland

Mar 30,2023 - Jun 18,2023

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Articles

The 59th October Salon: The ‘Leap’ Edition

Blok Magazine 11/02/2023

The October Salon is one of the oldest and most renowned international exhibitions of contemporary art in Serbia.

Olivia Plender’s “Our Bodies Are Not the Problem”

Art-agenda 04/11/2022

Olivia Plender’s research-driven practice is rooted in a fascination with the way communities self-organize...

Frieze Week London 2022 Plus Collateral Events and Exhibitions – Artlyst Guide

ArtLyst 07/10/2022

Welcome to the Artlyst Frieze Week 2022 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar.

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Coverage

“ ..Devised as a 'museum of communication', these thematically organised rooms focus on Plender's research into how attitudes towards mass education have evolved over time... ”
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The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

“ ..Plender’s research based practice questions the ideological framework around the narration of history... ”
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Maureen Paley

“ .. Plender is interested in the voice as material and an instrument to investigate how forms of authority and power relations can be established... ”
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AR-Ge Kunst

“ ..Plender originally came across these exercises having lost her ability to speak following an illness in 2013 and repeated them daily over the course of her year-long rehabilitation... ”
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AR-Ge Kunst

“ ..Drawing on social history, Plender questions how official historical narratives are constructed, and the hierarchies behind the ‘voice of authority’ that is traditionally produced by institutions in the... ”
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Maureen Paley